Saturday, December 17, 2011

Meet Aloyo Concy

Meet Aloyo Concy, one of our best tailors. She joined One Mango Tree in 2008, when we sponsored a training in Unyama Camp, and internal displacement camp on the outskirts of Gulu. Concy has a great smile, and loves to laugh. She's totally serious about her work - at our first workshop, Concy pulled her sewing machine onto veranda every day so that she could have total focus on her work, quietly humming to herself while she churned out Market Totes all day long.

Concy's intense focus is because of her daughters - keeping them all in school and making sure they have a comfortable and safe environment to come home to. She hopes to save enough money from her work at One Mango Tree to buy land and build her own home.

Check out the tag on your One Mango Tree product - did Concy make your bag?

For more photos from our visit to Concy's place, check out her album on Facebook.

Learn

We believe it is our responsibility to learn as much as we can about the issues that relate to our work. Here are some great links (and related twitter handles) to help you learn more about the work that we do:

FAIR TRADE

Fair Trade Federation (@FTFederation) this trade association (we're members!) offers a wealth of knowledge - learn how to start a fair trade business, explore fair trade organizations from all over the world, get answers to questions.

Fair Trade Towns USA (@FairTradeTowns) turn your town into a Fair Trade Town - a community of conscious consumers, activists, business and retail, local organizations, and city or town government. Find out how to unite your town in support of fair trade.